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    GHOST OF BISSEL, WAKEFIELD

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2025 8 comments

    THERE is a curious-looking “ghost street” in Wakefield, a curved dirt pedestrian path along the stone wall that marks the south end of the 239th Street subway yard serving #2…

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    HEWLETT STREET, GLEN OAKS

    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2025 4 comments

    LAKEVILLE ROAD is a major north-south thoroughfare in western Nassau County, part of a much longer road running from Kings Point south to Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park. North…

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    EAST END, METROPOLITAN AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2025 3 comments

    MANY of New York City’s longest and most important roads begin in inconspicuousness and humble spots. Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was…

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    DYER AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 12, 2025 5 comments

    DYER Avenue, seen here from West 38th Street, is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten New York item, as it’s one of the most car-trafficked roads in New York City.…

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    LOST ROADS OF WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2024 4 comments

    THOUGH most of Queens’ streets, except lengthy main roads such as Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, etc. were numbered beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, some outmoded names continued to show…

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    WEST SIDE HIGHWAY, 1970s

    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 8, 2024 23 comments

    THIS photo of the long-gone West Side Highway in Manhattan has been making the rounds today (it’s in Facebook’s Lost New York page) so I thought I’d wade in. Surprisingly…

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    JUNCTION BOULEVARD

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2024 8 comments

    JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…

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    WATCHOGUE ROAD, WESTERLEIGH

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2023 18 comments

    EVERY so often, I like to note place names that are unique to New York City and it’s likely I won’t find another Watchogue Road with a search on Google…

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    END OF KINGS HIGHWAY

    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2023 11 comments

    I have written about Kings Highway a number of times in FNY and have walked much of its length over the quarter century I have posted on Forgotten NY. I…

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    UNION TURNPIKE

    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 9, 2023 33 comments

    UNION Turnpike, seen here just east of Utopia Parkway and the St. John’s University campus, begins its lengthy run to New Hyde Park, Nassau County, from Myrtle Avenue and 86th…

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    GOWANUS EXPRESSWAY, 1964

    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 21, 2023 12 comments

    My posts will be intermittent for awhile as I recover from surgery, but I am feeling better. My father was just as much a photo buff as I turned out…

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    SPRINGFIELD BOULEVARD, BAYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh September 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh September 13, 2023 9 comments

    CREEDMOOR Psychiatric Center is located on the old grounds of the Creedmoor rifle range, deeded to New York State for that use by the National Guard in 1872. International matches…

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